On February 10, 2004 07:05 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | you can manually mask/unmask the various packages, but do yourself a > | favour: DON'T run a partial ~x86/x86 system. it's just a world of > | hurt. seriously, i'm running a full ~x86 system with very few > | problems, and what problems i run into, are easily solved with a trip > | to forums.gentoo.org. > > That may have been the case with portage .49, but in .50 the new > package.keywords stuff makes this almost completely painless. The man > pages contain full details, but basically .50 supports per-package > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS by way of /etc/portage/package.keywords . For example, > my mostly-stable ultra10 has: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ciaranm 0 0.99 $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords > sys-apps/portage ~sparc > x11-base/xfree ~sparc > x11-wm/fluxbox ~sparc > app-portage/gentoolkit ~sparc > app-portage/gentoolkit-dev ~sparc > sys-kernel/sparc-dev-sources ~sparc
_very_ cool big kudos to the developers there ;-) -- without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony - lau tzu, "tao te ching: chapter xxxii" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
